You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

Discipline is needed in our lifestyle.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.